Japan regularly intercepts Russian forces near its territorial waters and airspace.

Japan scrambled fighter jets to respond to Russian bombers, fighters and a surveillance plane at least four times this week ...

A series of leaked communications and military documents have revealed how Russian authorities and security services assessed ...

Japan fighter aircraft were scrambled 448 times in the last nine months – a 14 percent decrease from the same timeframe last ...

The land-based Typhon weapon is capable of firing the Standard Missile-6 and Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Japan scrambled fighter jets to monitor nuclear-capable Russian warplanes that flew over international waters along the edge of Japanese airspace off its coast. Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said ...

TOKYO (AP) — One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off Russia’s sparsely populated Far East early Wednesday, sending tsunami waves into Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast. Several ...

MOSCOW, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday that any dialogue with Japan regarding a peace treaty to formally end World War Two could only begin once Tokyo abandoned what Moscow described as a ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Fears of a devastating tsunami across the Pacific faded Wednesday after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off a sparsely populated Russian peninsula, but ...